Chattanooga Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Cost burden runs 49% here against 40.3% across Hamilton County. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.5/10. It sits 0.8 points above the Hamilton County average of 3.9.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,268, close to the Chattanooga average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $49,500.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.